Burghfield

Burghfield is a village in Berkshire, England, located 4 miles southwest of Reading. It was named for a hillfort built by the Anglo-Saxons to withstand Viking invasions, and it was once a sparsely populated hamlet, only for the population to boom during the 1980s due to the construction of housing estates in the area. In 2011, Burghfield had a population of 5,955 people.